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west
1. n. One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox, abbreviated as W.
2. adj. Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
3. adj. (meteorology) Of wind: from the west.
4. adj. Of or pertaining to the west; western.
5. adj. From the West; occidental.
6. adj. (ecclesiastial) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the east, or the part containing the chancel and choir.
7. adv. Towards the west; westwards.
8. v. To move to the west; (of the sun) to set.
country
1. n. (chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
2. n. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, speci
3. n. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.
4. n. (usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
5. n. (ellipsis of country music)
6. n. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
7. n. (vulgar,) The female genitalia, especially the vagina.
8. adj. From or in the countryside or connected with it.
9. adj. Of or connected to country music.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
take
1. v. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
I'll take that plate off the table.
2. v. To seize or capture.
take the guards prisoner
take prisoners
After a bloody battle, they were able to take the city.
3. v. To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
took ten catfish in one afternoon
4. v. (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
5. v. To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
Billy took her pencil.
6. v. To exact.
take a toll
take revenge
7. v. To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
took the next two tricks
took Smith's rook
8. v. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
took third place
took bribes
The camera takes 35mm film.
9. v. To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
The store doesn't take checks.
She wouldn't take any money for her help.
Do you take credit?
The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins.
10. v. To accept and follow (advice, etc).
take my advice
11. v. To receive into some relationship.
take a wife
The school only takes new students in the fall.
The therapist wouldn't take him as a client.
12. v. (transitive, intransitive, legal) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
13. v. To remove.
take two eggs from the carton
14. v. To remove or end by death; to kill.
The earthquake took many lives.
The plague took rich and poor alike.
Cancer took her life.
He took his life last night.
15. v. To subtract.
take one from three and you are left with two
16. v. To have sex with.
17. v. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you.
The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her!
18. v. To grasp or grip.
He took her hand in his.
19. v. To select or choose; to pick.
Take whichever bag you like.
She took the best men with her and left the rest to garrison the city.
I'll take the blue plates.
I'll take two sugars in my coffee, please.
20. v. To adopt (select) as one's own.
She took his side in every argument.
take a stand on the important issues
21. v. To carry or lead (something or someone).
She took her sword with her everywhere she went.
I'll take the plate with me.
22. v. (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
The next bus will take you to Metz.
I took him for a ride
I took him down to London.
23. v. (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
These stairs take you down to the basement.
Stone Street took us right past the store.
24. v. To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
She took the steps two or three at a time/
He took the curve / corner too fast.
The pony took every hedge and fence in its path.
25. v. To escort or conduct (a person).
He took her to lunch at the new restaurant, took her to the movies, and then took her home.
26. v. (reflexive) To go.
27. v. To use as a means of transportation.
take the ferry
I took a plane.
He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester.
He's 96 but he still takes the stairs.
28. v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
29. v. To obtain for use by payment or lease.
She took a condo at the beach for the summer.
He took a full-page ad in the Times.
30. v. To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
They took two magazines.
I used to take The Sunday Times.
31. v. To consume.
32. v. To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
take two of these and call me in the morning
take the blue pill
I take aspirin every day to thin my blood.
33. v. To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
The general took dinner at seven o'clock.
34. v. To experience, undergo, or endure.
35. v. To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
take sun-baths
take a shower
She made the decision to take chemotherapy.
36. v. To experience or feel.
She takes pride in her work.
root
1. n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
2. n. A root vegetable.
3. n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
4. n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.
5. n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.
6. n. The primary source; origin.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
7. n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
The cube root of 27 is 3.
8. n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
Multiply by root 2.
9. n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
10. n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
11. n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often der
12. n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
13. n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
14. n. The lowest place, position, or part.
15. n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages account
I have to log in as root before I do that.
16. n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
I installed the files in the root directory.
17. n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
18. v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
19. v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
20. v. (computing, slang) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
21. v. To turn up or dig with the snout.
A pig roots the earth for truffles.
22. v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
23. v. (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
rooting about in a junk-filled drawer
24. v. To root out; to abolish.
25. v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
26. v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots
The cuttings are starting to root.
27. v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
We rooted some cuttings last summer.
28. n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
Fancy a root?
29. n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
30. v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
begin
1. v. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
I began playing the piano at the age of five. Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.
2. v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation
The program begins at 9 o'clock on the dot. I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun. -
3. v. (intransitive) To come into existence.
4. n. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
grow
1. v. To become bigger.
Children grow quickly.
2. v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.
A long tail began to grow from his backside.
3. v. To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
Have you ever grown your hair before?
4. v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
The boy grew wise as he matured.
The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
You have grown strong.
5. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

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